From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 7 19:22:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA17982 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA17973 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xq8La-0006u5-00; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:09:30 -0800 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:09:21 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Terry Lambert cc: Mike Smith , perlsta@sunyit.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, capriotti@geocities.com Subject: Re: X based Free installation In-Reply-To: <199801072210.PAA11976@usr06.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > Actually, a commercial X server vendor volunteered a free 640x480 > X server for FreeBSD to use in this kind of install about a year > (maybe more?) ago, and was flatly turned down. Really? I don't recall that. I remember that no one had a graphical install tool, and running sysinstall in a window would be cheesy :). Also, XFree has a generic 640x480 server too. ... > In any case, as I pointed out in my last message of this subject, > you can get the same benefits without X -- my Windows 3.1 installer > example still stands, I think. sysinstall bites, but unless someone rewrites it, not much will change. As far as I know, Jordon has been talking about this for a while... > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > Tom